A 90-second animated (动画) video of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games     1     features characters from traditional Chinese New Year paintings     2     ( recent ) became so popular on the Internet.

Netizens were fascinated by the video’s     3     ( amaze ) combination of winter sports and traditional Chinese characters, highlighting     4     ( they ) own unique characteristics and placing them alongside a wide range of sporting venues and cultural elements, including New Year paintings, Peking Opera, and ink-and-wash paintings.

The video starts with a girl and a panda going to Beijing     5     ( watch ) the Winter Olympic Games together. All of     6     sudden, the bamboo in the panda’s hands is turned into a bobsleigh (雪橇) carrying the girl while the panda speeds ahead. Snowflakes are created like magic, awakening (唤醒) characters often     7     ( see ) in Chinese New Year paintings, such as Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong, two gods of the door, competing     8     alpine (高山) skiing, and Mu Guiying and Yang Zongbao, a couple as well as generals of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), engaging in pair skating.

Hangzhou AU Culture and Technology Co. created the work. It is an animation company and     9     ( win ) the National Award for Scientific and Technological Progress in 2017.

“ We hope to add more     10     ( happy ) to the great event, meanwhile, viewers can learn about traditional Chinese culture, ” said Zheng Feihu, director of the video.

A charity has released     1     series of Christmas cards with a difference. The non-profit organization Doctors of the World is selling different cards showing     2     （tradition）Christmas scenes from the Holy Land（the parts of the Middle East mentioned in the Bible）. However, the     3     （picture）also contain images of the war in Syria（叙利亚）. Doctors of the World     4     （want）to make people aware that there is still a lot of suffering     5     （go）on in the world, especially in Syria. One Christmas card shows Mary and Joseph travelling     6     a donkey through the rubble of modern day, war-torn Syria.     7     shows the baby Jesus is asleep in his manger（马厩）when a missile is fired in the distance behind him. The next card shows that three wise men are looking up at warplanes flying overhead.

These images seek     8     （remind）the public that this year war has forced millions of people     9     really need help to leave their homes. Money from the sale of the cards will help to buy medicines and medical     10     （equip）for people in Syria and other areas of conflict around the world.

5 . Growing up in Puerto Rico, our family was no different from so many others. My parents got married after my father came back when the war ended. Both of my parents were struggling with the hard economic realities of the time. But somehow, they found time to cherish those cultural values that shaped our everyday life.

In our daily life, we celebrated together with our friends or family members every birthday, every graduation, and all holidays with music and dancing, and typical foods. When we visited our family in the countryside—a trip that took about two hours in a car, with five children fighting as to who would get a window or the front seat —we would break into song, and somehow the trip would turn into one full of happiness and fun. We would sing not only interesting children’s songs but also beautiful love songs — songs about the love of our country though we didn’t understand the meaning of the words many times.

I came to Philadelphia for the first time in 1973 to do a residency(实习) in family medicine. I remember the many hours of work. I was facing issues of life and death and suffering the clearly social unfairness and issues of poverty and race. These were all worsened by my feeling of cultural differences.

An important turning point in my life happened one Saturday night when I attended a concert of Puerto Rico singer and composer Antonio Caban Vale. The music showed my familiar rhythms, and the words spoke to my heart. I had found a space to express, celebrate, and share my culture in Philadelphia. Therefore, I believe diversity is seen as an advantage and not as a disadvantage. As a Puerto Rican, I am a mixture of races and I believe in my strength because of this.

The kindly “Chinese Fortune Grandpa” wearing Han Chinese clothing and holding a fortune bag debuted (亮相) at the Imperial Ancestral Shrine in Beijing on the day after Christmas. The final image of the Chinese gift-giver was selected through a global design competition against “Santa Claus”, according to a report byGuangming Daily.

Many Chinese cities have been filled with Christmas neon lights, Christmas songs, Christmas trees, and the images of “Santa Claus”in recent days. As a matter of fact, foreign festivals are becoming more popular than certain traditional Chinese festivals among the Chinese people, particularly the youth. “Certain traditional festivals have died out because people have forgotten their spiritual meanings, ”said noted writer Feng Jicai. More and more Chinese people are beginning to exchange gifts on Valentine's Day and Christmas. However, many of them know nothing about Chinese New Year pictures or sugarcoated figurines (小糖人), and have never heard suona music. Certain folk customs on the Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, and other traditional festivals have gradually disappeared. Under such circumstances, even the “Chinese Fortune Grandpa” is unlikely to defeat “Santa Claus”.

However, it is not a bad thing to some extent. It constantly reminds people to restore the “true face” of traditional festivals. China has listed traditional Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival as legal holidays, which brings more paid leaves to the public, and helps to awake the public awareness of traditional festivals.

In modern society, festival is a carrier of culture and its meaning largely depends on their understandings and usages by people. Compared with foreign festivals, traditional Chinese festivals are not inferior (次于) in cultural meanings, but lack of fashion sought by modern people. If people do not appreciate the historical culture contained by traditional festivals, and only take pleasure-seeking as the most important, the significance of traditional festivals will fade away and the inheritance (继承) of fine traditional culture will be cut off.